Jack Kemp forwards this:

http://theresurgent.com/trust-in-the-bible-is-falling-thank-our-churches-and-christian-colleges/
Trust in the Bible is Falling – Thank Our Churches and "Christian” Colleges
By Peter Heck | June 7, 2017, 04:30am | @peterheck

In a permissive culture that is increasingly accommodated by the church rather than confronted and opposed by the church, this should probably come as no surprise. Gallup has revealed that the percentage of Americans believing that God created human beings in their present form (as in, not a ball of goo that miraculously morphed over time through scientifically unobservable and untestable "natural processes”) has dipped to a new low of just 38%.
They found:

This is the first time since 1982 — when Gallup began asking this question using this wording — that belief in God’s direct creation of man has not been the outright most-common response. Overall, roughly three-quarters of Americans believe God was involved in man’s creation — whether that be the creationist view based on the Bible or the view that God guided the evolutionary process, outlined by scientist Charles Darwin and others. Since 1982, agreement with the "secular” viewpoint, meaning humans evolved from lower life forms without any divine intervention, has doubled.

While commentators and scholars are interpreting this as receding belief in Creationism, the truth is that this study actually shows receding confidence in the authority and accuracy of the Bible. While Christians desperate for approval from elites and sophisticates increasingly attempt to shoehorn Darwinian evolution into the pages of Scripture, or claim the Bible’s Genesis account to be allegorical and not historical, the consequences of this betrayal are absolutely devastating for the church’s effectiveness in America. Why?

First, it shows Christians willing to disagree with Jesus. That isn’t good. Christ affirmed that, "from the beginning of Creation, God made male and female” (Mark 10:6). There’s nothing in there about God making them an amorphous blobs that slowly generated sexual organs through material processes and chemical chance. Jesus also instructed His followers that if they didn’t trust the words of Moses, they wouldn’t trust His words either (John 5:47). Not only did Moses author the text of Genesis 1, he also wrote down what God’s finger carved into tablets of stone on Mt. Sinai (Exodus 20:11):

"For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day.”

When Christians are willing to consider Christ a liar, and are willing to believe that God’s finger got history and science confused when it was carving into stone, that’s not going to end well for the church.
Secondly, Christians who abandon the Genesis account undermine the Gospel message of Jesus – and thus the entire point of Christianity. For Darwinism to be true, countless species and forms of life were evolving, dying off, being eaten and destroyed in the process of becoming man. But there’s a problem. According to the gospel of Jesus, death is the punishment for sin (Romans 6:23). It entered the world through Adam and his rebellion in the Garden of Eden (Romans 5:12).
But if death was in the world before Adam ever showed up to sin – which Darwinism demands – then death isn’t the punishment for sin after all. It pre-existed sin. And if that’s the case, the death of Jesus on the cross did jack squat to pay for your sins. Gospel undone. Christianity collapsed.



A NOTE FROM FAY VOSHELL:


For decades, liberals have substituted their own doctrines in place of Christian doctrines. Darwinism, Marxism and other "isms" have undermined core Christian tenets of faith, including biblical inerrancy. The erosion has been continual and unrelenting.

Since progressivism has seized the public school system and academia, the unending attacks on Christianity have resulted in many Christians being brainwashed. I myself attended progressive institutions of "learning" throughout my entire life--from first grade on through seminary. That I have not become a rabid "progressive" is a miracle of God's grace. Grace is the only reason I did not capitulate.

The Church has played a major part in this erosion by failing to confront the culture and by failing to consistently raise their children in the faith. Instead, Christians have too often accommodated the culture, absorbing it much as Jews absorbed Hellenization in the time of Alexander the great and his successors.

The only solution is to pray for the power of almighty God to once again inspire the Church to rise up to confront the cultural rot we see and experience all around us

A NOTE FROM TIM:

I'd like to make a couple of theological points on this. The Garden of Eden story has Man created last among all the creatures, which is interesting in and of itself for it made it actually is largely born out by science that humanity is a H=Johnnie-come-lately. Interesting because the writers of Genesis were either brilliant, hugely lucky, or Divinely inspired. But there is more to it than that; when Adam and Eve are kicked out of the Garden God "sewed clothes of animal skins" for them. Huh? Does this mean He k8llled animals and made physical skins? And why were Adam and Eve so worried about being naked, anyway?

To me the answer is fairly clear; Adam and Even were given corporeal bodies in lthis world; those were the animal skins that God sewed. One can only have a problem with Genesis if it is read absolutely literally and by that I mean from a purely human corporal standpoint. Time moves a certain way for us but not for God, and there is no reason to not understand the Fall as being on a spiritual plane (which indeed it was as they suddenly knew they were naked i.e. that everyone - God and all the angels - knew what they thought and had done. ) It could be said that entropy entered the world when Adam and Eve sinned.

My opinion is that the dogmatic, scientific, materialistic approach to Genesis is a foolish and myopic view of something bigger than the purely material world. I see no reason not to believe in Genesis as described and in what science suggests. When God sewed those skins He was working in an already fallen world.

Catholic doctrine has always been that there are things we don't understand about Genesis and that is o.k. It does not invalidate it if Genesis does not agree with current scientific thinking.

Naturally, the huge number of problems with Evolution are ignored by the modernists, and it is more contradicting than the Bible.

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